The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (German: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011. Since 1977, the building has been designated a Kulturdenkmal on Germany's buildings heritage list.
The museum houses a collection of European paintings from the 14th century to the present day, sculptures from the 16th to 21st centuries and a New Media collection. Among its highlights are French and German paintings from the 19th and 20th century, including important works by Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne, along with major paintings by Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, Max Beckmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The New Media section features works by John Cage, Otto Piene, Peter Campus, Olafur Eliasson, and Nam June Paik. The Department of Prints and Drawings has 220,000 sheets from the 15th to 20th centuries, one of largest collections of its kind in Europe.
The museum's paintings span the 14th century to the present day and are primarily West European.
Among the collection's highlights are French and German works from the 19th and 20th century, including important pieces by Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. It holds major paintings by Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The museum also houses early modernist works by artists from the nearby art colony of Worpswede. Other represented artists include:
Andreas Achenbach
Albrecht Altdorfer
Arnold Boecklin
Carl Blechen
Merry-Joseph Blondel
Willy von Beckerath
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Gustave Courbet
Camille Corot
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Eugène Delacroix
Albrecht Dürer
Adam Elsheimer
Heinrich Jakob Fried
Joseph von Führich
Otto Gildemeister
Eva Gonzalès
Franz Krüger
Johann Liss
August Macke
Franz Marc
Hans von Marées
Anton Raphael Mengs
Edvard Munch
Friedrich Nerly
Jules Pascin
Camille Pissarro
Odilon Redon
Théo van Rysselberghe
Otto Scholderer
Carl Schuch
Alfred Sisley
Max Slevogt
Sébastien Stoskopff
Hans Thoma
Carl Wagner
[source: wikipedia]
unbelievable!
smoking room inside art gallery!
Performing arts?
[art forms in which artists use their body or voice to convey artistic expression—as opposed to visual arts, in which artists use paint/canvas or various materials to create physical art objects]
